Get me the Flurb XL
echoreply said:
Which do you want to buy
- Mark II XL
- Flurb 5 GW
That’s what landed in my inbox just now.
Well, now I want the new Flurb XL!
I can buy both and glue them together.
That exceeds your budget, though. Let me know which account to charge the excess to.
I stopped by the Art & Craft & Crap Store and bought some Magilla Gorilla Glue.
And I’m having a pizza party for our interns over lunch, provided they all help glue Marks ‘n’ Flurbs together.
That should make the Flurb XL affordable.
Whoa there, material lab guy…before you burst a vessel screaming at me for not putting the material test requirements in the system, maybe check to see who signed off the goddamn job?? I just picked the paperwork out of the communal basket in an attempt to help with the workload, since that particular job has several hundred lines on it…I had no control over what information was or was not entered by the person who signed off the job.
Wow, no good deed goes unpunished. You were just trying to help, goin’ above & beyond like they ask …
That’s the kind of asshole interaction that takes away people’s team spirit & makes them bitter.
(Ask me how I know!)
Noise! All the damn noise so early in the morn.
Really the excavator is back again! All damn day long yesterday beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
Then the last dump truck hurtled by, more blipping bleep bleeps then blessed silence they loaded the offensive bleeper on a trailer and left. But wait, a conspiracy unfolded at the corner the dump truck dumped a load for another neighbor who had their own excavator waiting and the bleep bleeps carried on for another bleeping hour!
Blipping me off it’s started already this morning. Beep beep beep. Driving me bleeping crazy!
I miss the silence of our lock down covid year. No construction racket, no highway noise, no rumble strips, no jake braking, racetrack silenced. Only birds and wind and crickets.
Reminds me of an incident long ago. The company delivery guy (older, near retirement guy) always comes in early, answers the phone, reads paper, eats bowl of cereal. (Field crews calls him early for deliveries, before regular office people come in.)
One office guy starts grabbing some of his cereal during the day. Not a big deal, but delivery guy runs out of his cereal in the morning. I see the guy grabbing it, so I glue the box to the top shelf in the kitchen cabinet. Next time office guy can’t get the box out.
Bravo! But next time, exploding dye packets.
This was a more subtle jab. Besides, I didn’t want to clean it up.
Wait. You’re criticizing a resume because he mentions a job skill that isn’t required for the job? Your job spec calls for MS Office skill but you expect the applicant to know not to mention Access? Sounds like this applicant dodged a bullet by not being hired by you.
I’m not the one doing the hiring, and if they are hired they won’t be working for me. I am simply rating the resumes. They received the proper rating for have MS Office experience, but I tend to doubt anyone who claims expertise in every single MS Office application.
I think that the problem is that most people don’t use Access in a meaningful way. I have two Access databases that I “use” every week. One is for my timesheet. But that’s using a database/report that someone else set up and that someone else maintains. There would be a steep learning curve if I needed to set up or change a database or report. Which is why if there’s a problem with a database or a change to be made, you call the owner of the database.
There’s maybe two people in my department who use Access in a worth mentioning on your resume kind of way. They’re the owners of the databases. They create the reports that the rest of us pull up and use as forms.
The story has developed, and gotten worse. Top posting, because all stories should be told backwards, Memento style.
For context, the original Mark II or Flurb 5 email was sent after a meeting to discuss the purchase options.
cow orker said:
what are my options, can we have a meeting to talk about this?
echoreply said:
Which do you want to buy
- Mark II XL
- Flurb 5 GW
cow orker said:
then lets just get one from the approved list
echoreply said:
The Blargle is not on the approved list, but if you can send me a the exact specifications, I’ll submit it for approval.
cow orker said:
I want the blargle
echoreply said:
Can you clarify?
cow orker said:
Get me the Flurb XL
echoreply said:
Which do you want to buy
- Mark II XL
- Flurb 5 GW
OHMIGOD, I had a flashback to “corporate cubicle land” when I read that.
Let’swaste time in meetings because I can’t read an email!
What is the prevailing pay scale for a job orking cows?
ETA: Or more to the point (for me anyway): Could this be a suitable part-time job for a retiree?
That’s entirely up to the cow.
I’m on a committee at work that has some people who work for another organization. I usually have a place on the agenda at our meetings where I give updates on what I’m doing, but they still are completely clueless about what I do. We were talking about social media, and I told them what our policies are. They thought maybe we should check with someone else. No, that’s my department, I do a lot of the social media posts and nobody else really knows more about it than I do.
The social media thing has gone away for now, and we’ve moved on to the website. I’ve been doing most of the updates to the website for years. About two years ago, someone from the other group made a lot of changes to the website without any input from me or the rest of the group. I thought this was weird, but most of the changes were harmless. This person is now leaving, and now they are bringing in a person from the other organization who basically does the exact same job I do. I don’t know why, but I’m adaptable, so it’s weird, but I’m sure it will be okay. Until yesterday, when another person who has been on this committee for a long time, said that no one is in charge of the website. 
Now I’m annoyed and maybe I should drop this committee. I feel invisible and unappreciated.
The committee is meeting in a few minutes. I’m so thrilled. 
Seems like what you should do (or should have done) is get a bit more assertive: Tell them that you (or your department) are in charge of the web site and social media, and you (or your department) have and will have the first, last, and final say over what goes out there.
Mention that you have tolerated past incursions into your area because they seemed benigh (so far), but that it has gone too far and these others now seem to feel they have free rein to meddle in the web site and social media. Emphasize that they do not.
Depending on how the committee receives your remarks, and depending on how much power and authority you actually have to control what goes out there, THEN you can decide if you should drop the committee. But don’t just roll over and duck out without a fight!